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Child in medieval and modern era Slavonia: cemeteries and graves as the source of archaeological evidence of the community's relations towards the youngest members

The paper examines the relations of the community toward a child in medieval and early modern period Slavonia (Northern Croatia) on the basis of archaeological evidences from cemeteries. The selection of places for child burials within the specific topography of the individual cemetery is observed as well as the findings in the graves of the children themselves. The study tries to answer the question whether the attitude of adults towards the youngest members of the community was a subject to changes depending on the different age groups of the deceased children, and weather there were certain similarities, respectively differences in funeral costumes associated with child burials in local or regional geographical context. In addition to studying the available archaeological data on the burials of children in northern Croatia, as well as ethnological data, a special emphasis is placed on the site of Saint Lawrence Church in the village Crkvari. The graveyard has continuously been used from the late Early Middle Ages till the modern period and altogether 599 graves, with a high percentage of child burials, were excavated. In contrast to numerous child graves from the modern period that make up around 70 percent of all child graves, a smaller percentage of child graves dating back to the Medieval periods was found. The possible causes of such a change in number of child graves on that site as well as phenomenon of some specific burial costumes in the different historical periods (e. g. depositing the coin underneath the head of the newborns and neonates in the modern era period) are also discussed.

arheologija djetinjstva ; pogrebni obredi i običaji ; dobno formirani identiteti ; faze životnog ciklusa ; novi vijek ; srednji vijek ; Crkvari

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